Recommended by Reading Challengers Challenge - 2016

[Kadijah Michelle]

RECOMMENDED BY READING CHALLENGERS
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016

Did you know our group has its very own Listopia Each member can add to the list and can vote for as many on the list as he or she would like. Note: if a book is not the first in a series and requires that one read the previous book(s) first, please do not add it to the list.

For this challenge, set a goal for how many of these books you would like to read. You know they'll be good because your fellow Reading Challengers have recommended them!

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I used myself as an example:

I want to read 10 of these books. I went to the list to see what other group members have submitted. Based on the list, I have chosen the following ten books to read.

1. The Book Thief
2. Rebecca
3. 1984
4. The Catcher in the Rye
5. A Game of Thrones
6. Divergent
7. Gone Girl
8. The Kite Runner
9. Ender's Game
10. Catch-22

Now all of mine appear on the first page, but I figure that's because I really should have already read them.
What about YOU?

[Kadijah Michelle]

How to Participate

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress.

Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the challenge leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.

For more information about how challenges work, check out This Thread or ask your challenge leader.

Participants

Aditya 0/10
Amanda 8/10
Andrew 2/11
Ang 16/21
Ann 0/20
Annika 1/10
Antoinella 0/10
Ariel 2/10
Arshish 0/7
Berenike 0/10
Blagica 16/15 Completed!
Bobbi 1/20
Brianna 0/20
Carolyn 9/10
Chaitra 20/20 Completed!
Chloe 0/10
Chris 0/10
ChrisP 3/5
Cindy 12/12 Completed!
Claire 3/10
Courtney 2/5
Cynthia 2/9
Deborah 0/7
Delitealex 0/10
Diana 8/10
Diane L 0/12
Dominique (Dom) 7/10
Ecem 26/26 Completed!
Erika 4/5
Esmeralda 0/12
Felicia 10/10 Completed!
Heli 10/10 Completed!
Holli 0/5
Ilona 15/10 Completed!
Isavella 0/31
Jacqualine 0/10
Jessica 15/15 Completed!
Jill 0/20
Jodi 0/20
Joe 0/12
June 3/12
Kadijah Michelle 11/22
Karin 3/8
Kate 4/16
Katherine 0/10
Kiwi 12/12 Completed!
Kme_17 0/10
Laura 15/15 Completed!
Linda 0/4
Lindsey 0/20
Lucy Jade 5/10
Lulu 0/5
Marina H 20/20 Completed!
Mary Pat 3/10
Maureen 0/20
Maxine 10/15
Maya 0/15
Megan BG 5/5 Completed!
Missy 0/6
Monique 7/7 Completed!
Maya 0/15
NancyMagaly 0/10
Natalie 6/12
Nik 9/12
Nikinna 0/20
Paul 44/25 Completed!
Rachel 0/10
Rea 0/20
Renata 0/10
Sam F 15/15 Completed! Next 3/15
Saneera 0/10
Sara 0/5
Sarah (message 28) 0/10
Sarah (message 48) 3/5
Sherry 5/5 Completed!
Sheryl 16/20
Stacy 0/10
Steph & Manda 0/4
Stephani - Speling Expirt 0/15
Stephanie (Chinchillita) 1/44
Stephanie (R-A) 9/10
Susan C 10/10 Completed!
Tarah 0/30
Vernice 11/15
Winter 2/5

as of message 342

[Blagica , Challenges]

the listopia link doesn't work. I'd like to peak at the link before i pick a number but am in!

[Dominique]

RECOMMENDED BY READING CHALLENGERS
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016

7/10

1.The Thirteenth Tale 03/17/16
2.The Passage 11/30/16
3.My Sister's Keeper
4.Radiance of Tomorrow
5.Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 04/09/16
6.Hollow City
7.The Count of Monte Cristo 07/21/16
8.The Goldfinch 01/28/16
9.Eleanor & Park 04/05/16
10.Never Let Me Go 02/26/16

[Kadijah Michelle]

Fixed the link, I hope. It's working for me.

[Blagica , Challenges]

thanks for the quick fix I will start with 7

[Jodi]

I will sign up for 20 please.

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[Overbooked ✎]

This is so tempting, thanks Kadijah Michelle for posting this, I have voted for my favorites, I might join the challenge by month's end.

ETA2: here are my 10+2 books for this challenge:

✔. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
✔. Candide by Voltaire
✔. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
✔. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
✔. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
✔. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
✔. Euphoria by Lily King
✔. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
✔. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
✔. Watchmen by Alan Moore
✔. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
✔. The Last Child by John Hart

progress: 12/12 Completed 30 May 2016

[Winter, Group Reads]

Recommended By Reading Challengers Challenge

Goal: Read 5 books from our groups' listopia.


1. 1984, George Orwell
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
4. The Maze Runner, James Dashner
5. Candide, Voltaire

Total: 1/5

Recommended by Reading Challengers Challenge

[Paul Emily]

I might join this, I might not, but for now I'm going to stick to voting for books. Part of me is honestly worried that 100 won't be enough though. We'll see.

[Sam F]

I'll try for 30 books - such a great list!

Recommended by 2015 Reading Challengers

1. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
3. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
5. Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
6. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
7. Bossypants by Tina Fey
8. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
9. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
10. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
11. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
12. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
15. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
16. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
17. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
18. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
19. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
20. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
21. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
22. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
23. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
24. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
25. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

[Renáta]

I'll go for 10 books. :)

[Marina]

I'm in... Sign me up for 20 books!

1. The Bell Jar
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
3. Americanah
4. A Man Called Ove
5. All the Light We Cannot See
6. Water for Elephants
7. The Orphan Master's Son
8. Burial Rites
9. Sharp Objects
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
11. Rebecca
12. Middlesex
13. Flowers for Algernon
14. A Thousand Splendid Suns
15. The Graveyard Book
16. Eleanor & Park
17. We Were Liars
18. Paper Towns
19. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
20. The Ocean at the End of the Lane

20/20

[Annika]

Hi Kadijah Michelle, could you please sign me up for 10? Thank you!

1/10 completed

1. Room by Emma Donoghue✔
2. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
6. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
7. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

[Mary Pat]

Count me in for 10 please! I will post books later.

[Delitealex]

10 for me

[Erika]

I'm just going to do 5 for this one this time. Thanks!

[Paul Emily]

I'm going to go for 10 for now, but what I'm going to do is - as far as I can make it - leave the list of all the books I own that are on the Listopia that I haven't read yet. I could make it more than 10, and I probably will do at some point, but seeing as I have no idea how any of the challenges are really going to bump off and interact with each other, I think it's best to start small for now. :) (Not to mention I'm not even considering the books that are both on the list and in my library.) EDIT: Updated to 25.

1. The Hunger Games (13/5/16)
2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (26/6/16)
3. The Night Circus (16/3/16)
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (4/5/16)
5. Divergent (19/4/16)
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns (28/1/16)
7. The Kite Runner (8/1/16)
8. The Color Purple (20/3/16)
9. Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore (4/3/16)
10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (26/5/16)
11. American Gods (29/5/16)
12. The Cuckoo's Calling (31/7/16)
13. Silver Linings Playbook (24/2/16)
14. Joyland (18/7/16)
15. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (17/3/16)
16. Quiet (4/6/16)
17. Blindness (7/4/16)
18. Still Alice (26/1/16)
19. The Martian (5/1/16)
20. A Discovery of Witches (11/3/16)
21. All the Light We Cannot See (6/1/16)
22. The Golem and the Djinni (1/3/16)
23. The Nightingale (24/3/16)
24. 1Q84 (18/6/16)
25. Pride and Prejudice (4/7/16)
26. Middlesex (11/9/16)
27. Good Omens (16/8/16)
28. The Final Empire (6/10/16)
29. Angela's Ashes (11/2/16)
30. I Am Malala (15/3/16)
31. How to Be a Woman (26/6/16)
32. The Girl on the Train (18/6/16)
33. The Remains of the Day (8/5/16)
34. The Goldfinch (4/6/16)
35. Throne of Glass (3/9/16)
36. A Man Called Ove (30/10/16)
37. In the Woods (5/6/16)
38. Persepolis (15/4/16)
39. A Tale for the Time Being (20/4/16)
40. Kafka on the Shore (9/8/16)
41. Watchmen (22/2/16)
42. Red Rising (14/7/16)
43. Vicious (14/4/16)
44. So You Want to Be a Wizard (24/4/16)

44/25

[Kadijah Michelle]

Paul wrote: "I'm going to go for 10 for now, but what I'm going to do is - as far as I can make it - leave the list of all the books I own that are on the Listopia that I haven't read yet. I could make it more ..."


I totally understand. I'm in the same boat as you. I have loads of these books I bought or obtained on others recommendations but haven't gotten to.

I'm really glad to see we are all making realistic goals and don't forget, the goal can be changed through out the year.

[Antoinella]

count me in for 10.

1. Room
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. Rebecca
4. The Hobbit
5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. The Catcher in the Rye
8. Catch-22
9. The Princess Bride
10. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

[Susan C]

This is too funny - I picked this list for the Listopia challenge. Sign me up for 10 for this challenge, and I'll find a different list for Listopia.

1. Yes Please read 1/8/2016
2. The Golem and the Jinni read 1/24/2016
3. Burial Rites read 2/10/2016
4. Corelli's Mandolin read 2/17/2016
5. The Power of One read 3/12/2016
6. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena read 4/22/2016
7. The Thirteenth Tale read 5/6/2016
8. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier read 6/9/2016
9. A Fine Balance read 7/9/2016
10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry read 7/22/2016

10/10
Challenge completed!

[Sherry]

Please add me for 5

[Nik]

In for 12, thanks!

[Megan BG]

I'm going to start with 5.

1. Paper Towns - 1/6
2. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure - 1/21
3. The 5th Wave - 1/31
4. The Road - 4/29
5. The Lightning Thief - 6/13

[Jessica]

I'm in for 15 -- books TBD. Thanks!

1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
2. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
3. The Husband's Secret
4. Life After Life
5. The Graveyard Book
6. 11/22/63
7. The Orphan Master's Son
8. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
10. How to Be a Woman
11. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
12. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
13. Still Alice
14. Room
15. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

15/15 - COMPLETED!

[Kadijah Michelle]

I am fortunate that I already already own the books I'm planning on reading!

So I went over the list again and added a whole bunch! I'm up to 21 books now.

13. Divergent
20. The Catcher in the Rye
25. The Time Traveler's Wife
32. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
47. Water for Elephants

5/21

[Jill]

I'm going to try 20 if time permits or if I read a book that I don't have listed then I'll add it, but I think I'm good with the 20 that I've picked.

Completed: 5/20


✔ 1. All the Light We Cannot See...FINISHED 1/5/17
✔ 2. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race...FINISHED 2/16/17
3. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
4. The Thirteenth Tale
5. The Snow Child
✔ 6. JILL...FINISHED 2/23/17
7. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
8. Me Before You
9. City of Bones
10. My Cousin Rachel
11. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
12. A Discovery of Witches
13. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
✔ 14. A Man Called Ove...FINISHED 2/27/17
15. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
16. The Enchanted
17. Big Little Lies
18. The Miniaturist
19. Life After Life
✔ 20. Lilac Girls...FINISHED 1/18/17

[Sarah]

Please put me down for ten. Thank you :)
0/10
1. The Night Circus
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
3. Cinder
4. Emma
5. Six of Crows
6. Holes
7. I Am Number Four
8. The Bone Season
9. The Darkest Minds
10. Poison Study

[Ilona]

I would like to join this challenge, starting with a goal of 5 books!
Edit 2/2: Goal raised to 10

1) A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
2) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3) Room by Emma Donoghue
4) Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
5) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
6) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
7) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
8) Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
9) The Princess Bride by William Goldman
10) Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
11) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
12) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
13) The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
14) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
15) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro


(15/10)

[Lulu]

I'd like to sign up for 5 please!

0/5

1. The Hunger Games
2. The Fault in Our Stars
3. The Hobbit
4. Northern Lights (Golden Compass in the US/on the list)
5. Station Eleven

[[deleted user]]

Must. Not. Join. Another. Challenge.


Put me down for 5!

[Winter, Group Reads]

Sara wrote: "Must. Not. Join. Another. Challenge.


Put me down for 5!"

LOL I am like that too, only I gave up ^^

[Tawallah]

I'll go for 12 books for now.
Current status : 7/12

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns - ✔
2. Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore- ✔
3. Frankenstein
4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- ✔
5. 11.22.63
6. Gone With the Wind
7. Crime and Punishment
8. Anna Karenina
9. Fall of Giants
10. The Thorn Birds
11. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ✔
12. A Man Called Ove- ✔

Potential additions:
Assassin's Apprentice - ✔
Beauty Queens- ✔
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Purple Hibiscus
Americanah

[[deleted user]]

Winter wrote: "LOL I am like that too, only I gave up ^^"

I think I'm going to stop fighting it. I want to join everything. I will surely fail, but I will fail BIG!

[Kme_17]

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[Deborah]

I'll add what I think I will read:

The Book Thief
Life of Pi
Secret Daughter
How to Be a Woman
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
Becoming George Sand
Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
Two Boys Kissing

[Diane L]

I'd like to sign up for 12.

These are already on my TBR

11/12

71. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, 16 Jun 2016
75. Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 3 Oct 2016
78. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, 14 Jul 2016
101. Still Alice by Lisa Genova, 3 Dec 2016
170. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey, 15 Oct 2016
178. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, 6 Jan 2016
277. Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, 9 Feb 2016
322. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, 10 Nov 2016
353. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 30 Nov 2016
375. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 2 Nov 2016
470. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, 9 Jul 2016

[Jodi]

Sara wrote: "Winter wrote: "LOL I am like that too, only I gave up ^^"

I think I'm going to stop fighting it. I want to join everything. I will surely fail, but I will fail BIG!"

Sara, join all the ones you are interested in. They are fun and often motivate people to read more. Join, join, join!!!

[Winter, Group Reads]

I agree with Jodi! And you don't have to set the specific books in stone! I startet picking books, then realised I wanted it more open.

[Karin]

I'm in for 8 books

[Winter, Group Reads]

No wait I'm on wrong challenge, I thought I was on Listopia. I did actually pick here, but I don't think you have to at once :)

[Felicia]

I'm gonna do 10 books for this challenge! :D (Which, for me, is set high.)

[Ashish]

Put me down for 7.

1. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
5. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
7. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

0/7

[[deleted user]]

7/7 completed

1) The Book Thief
2) Burial Rites
3) 1984
4) The Nightingale
5) The Time Traveler's Wife
6) Still Alice
7) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Chris]

please sign me up for 10 books for this challenge thanks

[Katharine]

Please put me down for 10, at least for now. I will update as I go.


Recommended by...
Goal: 10 books



Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt finished 1/6/16 ✰✰✰✰✰
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss finished 1/8/16 ✰✰✰✰✰
The Last Child by John Hart finished 2/20/16 ✰✰✰
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik finished 3/20/16 ✰✰✰
In the Blood by Lisa Unger finished 3/25/16 ✰✰✰✰
Cinder by Marissa Meyer finished 3/28/16 ✰✰✰✰✰
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman finished 4/14/16 ✰✰✰✰✰
Divergent by Veronica Roth finished 4/31/16 ✰✰✰✰
Room by Emma Donoghue finished 6/21/16 ✰✰✰✰
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett finished 6/24/16 ✰✰✰✰
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold finished 8/3/16 ✰✰✰
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl finished 8/6/16 ✰✰✰✰
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak finished 8/10/16 ✰✰✰✰
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie finished 8/20/16 ✰✰✰✰
Sabriel by Garth Nix finished 9/11/16 ✰✰✰✰✰
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder finished 9/24/16 ✰✰✰✰
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan finished 9/29/16 ✰✰✰✰
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut finished 10/4/16 ✰✰✰✰
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith finished 10/6/16 ✰✰✰
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway finished 10/8/16 ✰✰✰✰
Matched by Ally Condie finished 11/1/16 ✰✰✰✰
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey finished 11/5/16 ✰✰✰✰
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot finished 11/26/16 ✰✰✰✰✰
Graceling by Kristin Cashore

[Sarah]

Please sign me up for 5 - that's the number of books in the top ten that I haven't read...

1. The Book Thief - done Nov 2016
2. The Fault in Our Stars - done Jan 2016
3. The Night Circus
4. Life of Pi - done Aug 2016
5. Fahrenheit 451

3/5

[ChrisP]

Put me down for 5 in the top 100.

[[deleted user]]

Put me down for 10 , i think i will read these 10 but it may change

City of bones
Vampire academy
Clockwork angel
Miss peregrine's home for peculiar children
Tales of beedle the bard
Divergent(reread)
The fault in our stars ( reread)
Daughter of smoke and bone
The cuckoo's calling
The maze runner

[Rachel]

This was one of my Listopias last year and it was a great resource for what to read next.

Recommended by Reading Challengers Challenge
Duration: January-December 2016
Completed: 1/10

Books from this Listopia .

1. Me Before You ✓

Ideas
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Frankenstein
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
To Kill a Mockingbird
Life of Pi
Memoirs of a Geisha
Neverwhere
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The Thirteenth Tale
Between Shades of Gray
Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Divergent
Sarah's Key
And Then There Were None